It’s no secret that Nashville and Dallas don’t like each other...there’s a bit of animosity between these teams. Tonight’s game is the first of a back-to-back set, so we should see both Saros and Rittich.
The Preds placed Filip Forsberg and Nick Cousins on injured reserve on Tuesday and recalled Mathieu Olivier and Michael McCarron from the Admirals. Olivier and McCarron are both large bodies and I’ll go ahead and assume that part of tonight’s plan is to “play the body” against the Stars.
The Predators’ official game preview notes these interesting tidbits: “The Predators went 5-3-0 vs.